Spiritual Intelligence - The Real Secret

SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE - THE REAL SECRET
SELF-EMPOWERMENT: The mystery of existence and the all-pervading essence and energy of the universe are phenomena that human consciousness has sought to understand for timeless eons. For me, this is the realm of Spiritual Intelligence and understanding it places me in right the middle of the paradox of accepting that it is beyond my rational understanding whilst knowing that there are ways that I do understand it. Because of this I am able to engage with it and apply it practically in my life.

The organic wisdom of Spiritual Intelligence has been known about for ages. However, its application has been suppressed and misinterpreted through many of our cultural practices. Spiritual Intelligence informs all mystic traditions; when these are distilled to their essence there is a remarkable level of consensus between them, even though their ensuing dogma is implicated in most of human conflict. Spiritual Intelligence is not a religion, nor is it religious; it is not a theology; it is not a philosophy; it is not a system of ethics or a moral code. It is not a rational intellectual faculty that can be brought to bear analytically or academically. Above all Spiritual Intelligence is not something mysterious that is the province of the special few.

Leading edge science is now coming up with a plethora of terms that map on to the various spiritual descriptions of the ineffable that I call Spiritual Intelligence, in a vague yet compelling manner. Many of these terms, like the quantum vacuum and the zero point field, may be in dispute and finely differentiated intellectually. Nevertheless, they are essentially attempts to articulate the same universal phenomena perceived by the mystics of old; and they are as esoteric in their own way.

However we attempt to describe or define it, Spiritual Intelligence will always somehow defy our definitions. This is because it is an intelligence beyond our intellect that comprises everything - the known and the unknown. It will not be contained. But it is possible to access it.
Accessing Spiritual Intelligence is the process of self-empowerment. This is an ongoing unfolding of exquisite joy and freedom. It is an expansion of consciousness that continues to make the limiting beliefs we've applied to our sense of our existence redundant. Spiritual Intelligence is the root of fulfilment and prosperity for anyone who chooses to engage with it. Nevertheless it is not for the faint-hearted. It demands that we be prepared to drop our beliefs about everything we've used in defining ourselves to ourselves and abandon every idea that fails to support or nourish us. When we choose to engage with it, it means we are asking to become fully the truth of who we are.

A PERSONAL STORY: I've been aware of actively engaging and working with Spiritual Intelligence for 20 years. In that time I've been through a fundamental transformation, changing the way I express in the world almost beyond my own recognition. As with most people's journey, mine has been very circuitous. Whenever I thought I was aiming for one place I invariably found myself visiting many others along the way that I had no idea existed; and as I travelled my destination began to shift.

Also, like many others on the path, I found that every so often I ran into the emotional debris of my past. In the beginning for a long time, I dreaded these encounters, they seemed so painful and they were what I was running away from. Getting "spiritual" was supposed to make this stuff go away. It took me a while, as I can be extraordinarily resistant, but I began to realise that this was the work I was here to do. Because the clearer I became in my emotions, the healthier I became, and the more clearly I could feel my connection to my essence. And this felt good! In fact I found I could actually feel a lot more and I could trust my feelings. Not surprising, as they were no longer cluttered and blocked by my old emotional patterns and reactions.

I got very good at my own clearing, so good that I began to offer assistance to others in personal healing sessions, workshops and training groups. I evolved some remarkably powerful processes that access the deepest aspects of our humanity and their origins - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. I stopped working at my old job and sought to make my living as a teacher of these self-healing processes. I even wrote a book. It has been a wonderful 20 years and I look forward to the next 20 with relish.

Now here's the point that I've been building up to. In all that time I always had my needs met, but I never really prospered. And I worked hard. I knew that Spiritual Intelligence could guide me to the solution - connecting with it consciously had done so much for me, it had to be capable of this. So I began to look at where my focus had been, and where I was applying it. I had been prosperous, before getting into my own transformation; and I knew all the stuff about the abundance of the universe, old mindsets of poverty-consciousness and the attitude of gratitude. But I was just getting by. So I decided to do something about it.

I realised that for prosperity to have any meaning for me it had to come from a place of integrity with Spiritual Intelligence, so it wasn't just a matter of figuring out a business plan and packaging up my teachings into a commodity. It was about utilising what had meaning for me, the principles I had developed, in a grounded and practical way.

So now I considered what had worked for me, and looked at how it worked. And I came up with the following basic steps. First I had to feel where I was at and accept it. Then I had to be clear about what I wanted, and feel that.

This second step was less easy, but I had experience of prospering. I knew that feeling. And I knew the feeling of being in tune with the well-being of my soul, that's what I'd been working on for the last two decades. And suddenly I knew intuitively that I needed to begin using my imagination to bring those feelings into my body. But the key was to do this at odd moments - when I was walking down the street, when I was sitting quietly relaxed, and almost any time I thought of it. There had to be a complete absence of pressure, no supreme efforts of will, no deep meditative techniques. It had to be light.

I shifted my feeling focus from what it felt like to be wanting material prosperity to what it felt like to have it. And things began to change, rapidly. Within six months I was contracted for some work, and over the following year my income quadrupled.

WELL-BEING AND MANIFESTING: This brings me to an aspect of feeling that is rarely recognised. It is nothing less than the open secret of the generative properties of feeling. And it goes like this ...

The more we feel down and fed-up the more this is reflected back to us through our interpretation of the external circumstances of our lives, and the more we feel down and fed-up.
But it works the other way too. The more we feel the joy and delight of being alive the more this is reflected through our interpretation of the external circumstances of our lives, and the more we feel the joy and delight of being alive.

This is the secret. What I feel generates my experience. If I can feel the joy of life I will see it, even in what could be conceived of as the most adverse situations. If I allow what I see to condition what I feel, through the interpretive processes of my mind, that feeling will generate more of whatever I see.

It is therefore a priority to induce the feelings of joy, delight and well-being, even if only momentarily, as often as possible. This will eventually guide us into the situations which reflect those feelings. If you want your life to work take yourself to the place of feeling where it is working. Imagine it! Invent it!

Also realise that it is a mistake to try to hold onto these feelings. When they pass, as they will, let them go and tell yourself you've done it once so you can do it again. Then, when you are ready, bring yourself to a place of feeling the joy of life again. Make this a practice.
COSMIC SENSE: Because it is often at variance with the rational mind, Spiritual Intelligence can sometimes only emerge when the rational mind has exhausted itself. For the most part it is concealed from us by our self-constructed illusions and beliefs about our earthly existence: the beliefs that we've created to sustain our concept of consensus reality and how we fit into it.
Spiritual Intelligence reveals itself to us through the situations that challenge our concepts of reality and truth, and even those of our own identity. These are always charged with fear: consequently we avoid them. Our Spiritual Intelligence thus remains largely untapped. A very basic rule of thumb comes from the phenomenon that when we are aligned with Spiritual Intelligence we experience joy at the core of our being - this means we feel as if everything is right with the world and it's great to be alive. The degree to which we fail to feel this is the degree to which we are in conflict with Spiritual Intelligence and from our own natural well-being.

Put simply, when everything is working we feel good. So our emotional triggers and trauma, our fears and our negative behaviour patterns can be seen as signals that our Spiritual Intelligence is trying to support us but is being blocked. We experience the effects of a block every time we react to a person or a situation, every time we see something wrong with anyone else, every time we berate ourselves for any shortcoming, every time we compare ourselves unfavourably with another ... and every time we stop ourselves from doing these things because we know they're not nice.

We each hold generations of baggage within us, inherited from our ancestors, learned from our cultures, absorbed from our environment. The weight of this burden is causing humanity at large to lash out in pain self-destructively - towards those we love, as well as those we have been taught to see as enemies. The extraordinary potential of Spiritual Intelligence is that we can do something about this. This is not just spiritually intelligent it's Cosmic Sense.

About the Author
Altazar Rossiter is a personal development consultant, coach and mentor based in London. He works internationally with professionals in the media, education and finance. From 2004 - 2007 he led the Facilitating with Spiritual Intelligence training programme organised by the Shapers of Education Foundation in the Netherlands. He is the author of "DEVELOPING SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE - The Power Of You". More information at www.altazarrossiter.com